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How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

I've always been an old soul.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic? Lindbergh. Who was the second? No idea.

I've always been a very young person with a very old soul.